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| Basic information | Name: Anson This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1972 Country: United States Mass:  3.9 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ANSON, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: ANSON Place of find: Sumner County, Kansas, USA. 39°20'N., 97°33'42"W. Date of find: Recognized 1972. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Olivine Fa23. Number of individual specimens: Not reported. Weight: 3.9 kg Circumstances of find: Picked up in a field by a farmer while he was drilling wheat. Source: G.I. Huss, 1976. The Huss Coll. of Meteorites, p. 3, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 147 approved meteorites from Kansas, United States (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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